Song, if you find a man at peace with love, say: 'Die while you're happy, since early death is no grief, but a refuge: and he who can die well, should not delay. (Petrarch)

Song, if you find a man at peace with love, say: 'Die while you're happy, since early death is no grief, but a refuge: and he who can die well, should not delay.

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